(Fantasy) All of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books (The Eye of the World,
The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, The Shadow Rising,
The Fires of Heaven, The Lord of Chaos, A Crown of Swords,
The Path of Daggers)
(Humourous Fantasy) Terry Pratchetts books (really funny for people
who know a lot about many things)
(Fantasy/Historical Fiction) All of Jack Whyte's A Dream of Eagles books
(The Skystone, The Singing Sword, The Eagles' Brood,
The Saxon Shore, The Sorcerer
[book 1: The Fort at River's Bend; book 2: Metamorphosis])
(Fantasy/Fiction) Marion Zimmer Bradley is a really good writer. I recommend her
Ghostlight(Ghostlight, Witchlight, Gravelight and Heartlight)
series. She also wrote some good Arthurian stuff (The Lady of Avalon,
The Forest House, The Mists of Avalon)
(Fantasy/Fiction) Morgan Llywelyn is a great historical writer, but my personal
fav book of hers is The Elementals.
(Fantasy) A while ago, Julian May, Andre Norton and Marion Zimmer Bradley
got together and wrote a series. This is pretty good, because
each of them took a main character and developed her. They wrote
Black Trillium together, Norton wrote Golden Trillium,
Juilian May wrote Blood Trillium and Sky Trillium,
and Bradley wrote Lady of the Trillium.
(Fantasy) Tad Williams is a good snowed-in writer. His books are long, but
excellent. I liked how he turned the plot around in his To Angel Tower series.
(Fantasy/Fiction) I've found Guy Gavriel Kay to be a great fantasy/historical fiction
writer. And he's Canadian too!
(Fantasy/Sci-Fi) Anne McCaffrey is prolly the most
prolific writer that I have ever read and just
around all her material is buy-worthy and
definitely all read-worthy. She was actually the
first Fantasy/Sci-Fi writer that I ever read,
the book Dragonsinger if you
want to know.
She has many series: Crystal Singer, Freedom's Choice,
Rowan/Raven/Lyon series (I can't remember the real name),
but her most famous
and most prolific series
is her Pern series.
Actually, it really isn't a single series; more like a
group of series set on the world of Pern. Out of that group,
I personally prefered the Dragonriders of Pern (a trilogy
plus a book) and Dragonsong and Dragonsinger.
The third book of that trilogy, Dragondrums
I really didn't like that much. I guess I didn't like how
Menolly and Pritmur (I know that it's spelt wrong, but that's
the way it's staying *g*)had grown up. Anyway, Anne McCaffrey
is a marvelous and very gifted writer and
well worth a very long read.
(Fantasy) I recommend George R. R. Martin. I've only read
A Game of Thrones, but it was a lovely book.
Can't wait to read A Clash of Kings!
(Comic/Biography) Art Spiegelman's Maus is a great
read, especially for someone like me who has
never read a comic novel before, you know,
a book that is down in comic strip format.
It's all about the author and his father, a
Holocaust survivor and their relationship together.
It's in two books: Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
and Maus II: And Here My Troubles Begin.
(Fantasy) Rayond Feist and David Eddings are good pulp fiction writers
(Fantasy/Fiction) Mercedes Lackey is a good writer. Some of her books you
might want to buy and others just read, it's hard to point
to any specific series by her that's the best
(Fantasy) George Lucas and Chris Claremont are writing this
trilogy that's the sequel to Willow (yes, that 80's movie).
The first book is Shadow Moon and it really sucks, but the
second book is called Shadow Dawn and it's really good. The
third book, Shadow Star, has yet to be released.
(Fantasy) Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule was good, but the rest of the
books suck. Pointblank, buy the first one and read the
rest if you really want to. I gave up on book three.
(Historical fiction) Jane Austin's Emma.
I'm willing to confess that it was a really delightful read.
Now I see why we have to read this in school;
Austin just sucks the reader into her world!
It's down as 'read' and not 'buy' because you prolly
have access to this book already.
(Fiction/Historical?) Salman Rushdie's Shame
is a very strange book. You will either
hate it or like it. I liked it, but it took a while for
the story to make sense. My housemate hated it
and gave up on the first chapter. Needless to say,
don't buy it unless you want to risk being stuck
with a book you hate.
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